Tara Duncan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3756841 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tara Duncan |
| NOMBRES | Tara |
| APELLIDO | Duncan |
| FIRMA | DUNCAN T |
| AFILIACIONES | Dalarna University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1845-7001 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A Gendered Lens to Platformisation in Tourism and Hospitality
The rapid platformisation of tourism and hospitality (T&H) is reshaping work, yet for many workers this digital transformation deepens existing vulnerabilities rather than dismantling them. Platforms now colonise recruitment, task allocation, and algorithmic management in a sector already defined by precarity and a workforce disproportionately composed of young people, women, and migrants. While the European Institute for Gender Equality warns th…
The role of emotions in moments of crisis
Embodied intersectionality at work in hotel housekeeping in Sweden
This paper examines the experiences of hotel housekeepers inSweden, focusing on how their embodied identities, shaped byfactors like gender, race, and migration background, influence andare influenced by their work. Placing the body at the centre of ourresearch, we explore how embodied intersectionality is situatedand contextually produced as lived experience in hotel workplaces.The way in which intersectional power dimensions are played outand p…
It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers
This paper explores the collaborative methodology of conducting working participant observation in a team setting to study the experiences of hotel housekeepers in Sweden. It aims to refine and extend the method of working participant observation by highlighting the benefits of a team approach to intensive ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on critiques of ‘traditional’ geographical methods that rely heavily on interviews, the researchers immersed t…
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation
This note tells a story of working participant observation. It shares a narrative of how working as a housekeeper, as part of a project about dignity and decent work, opened up the researchers to stories beyond the work tasks. The note weaves a tale around one particular worker, and highlights how as researchers, being embedded, and embodied within their research allowed for insights and reflections that a 'common' interview would not have gained…
The ‘CSR facade’ of the hospitality industry
Hotels are often regarded as (un)wittingly complicit in terms of sex traffickers using their facilities for illegal sex purchases. This article examines chain employees’ experiences of individual social responsibility (ISR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the interaction between hotels and three stakeholder groups (online booking channels; governmental and non-governmental organizations; and nearby hotels) in the fight against sex tr…
Personal crisis as a catalyser in a Movement Continuum of tourism lifestyle mobilities
Various professional, economic, and personal reasons underpin current migration flows. This article integrated the concepts of lifestyle travelling and lifestyle migration by bringing the tourism-migration nexus to the fore to analyse lifestyle issues of individuals that impact their decisions to be mobile. Sixteen in-depth semi-structured interviews with young Russian migrants, a 'modern' population with different perspectives about opportunitie…
The Precariousness of Young Chinese Being Working Holiday Makers in New Zealand
This study explores the precariousness experienced and perceived by Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand, and thereby challenges the more commonly and broadly disseminated positive narratives about long-term travel such as backpacking and working holidays. Whilst young Chinese have participated in the working holiday scheme in New Zealand for over a decade, this nascent phenomenon is still under-represented in the literature. Based on in…
Imagining the possibilities – food as leisure in a fragmented world
In this, the second part of a two-part special issue, we continue to explore the ways in which liquid modernity influences the relations we, as humans, have with food as leisure. The world where fo
Imagining the possibilities – food as leisure in a fragmented world. Part 1
This special issue, split into two parts, intervenes in the growing literature exploring food in/as/and leisure. The two parts do so by exploring food and leisure through the lens of liquid moderni
Personal Changes of Young Chinese through Working Holidays in New Zealand
This study aims to explore the personal changes of Chinese youth from their working holiday experiences in New Zealand. By drawing on semi-structured interviews, this study recruited thirty-four Chinese working holiday makers (WHMs) in New Zealand. A modified thematic analysis was adopted to analyze the interview transcriptions. Five themes have been developed, including independence, bravery, tolerance, marriage attitudes, and friends making. Th…
Young Chinese Becoming Working Holiday makers in New Zealand
The working holiday scheme of New Zealand provides young Chinese with a unique opportunity to have a prolonged work or study and travel experience in New Zealand. Until September 2015, New Zealand was the only working holiday destination for young Chinese and more recently only New Zealand and Australia offer this scheme to young Chinese. With the increasing interest in long-term backpacking, Chinese youth have chosen working holidays as their wa…
Practising academic mobilities
Notions of what a successful academic should be doing - researching, publishing, teaching, serving the academic community - are often dependent upon particular practices of corporeal mobilities. These practices discursively and materially connect historically situated academic mobilities with the "modern," globalised university system. At the same time, there is increasing attention being paid to the "hypocrisy of hypermobile academics" - often r…
Career paths and mobility in the Swedish hospitality sector
How career paths are interpreted and conceptualised by hospitality workers and industry representatives remains underexplored in current literature. In this paper, we highlight and discuss sector-specific and contextual factors that influence the possibility of establishing a career within the Swedish hospitality sector. The paper uses interviews with hotel managers, who describe and discuss motivations and choices made throughout their own caree…
Leisure Geographies
Leisure has long been a contested term and while it has a long history of engagement by geographers it remains an underrepresented research field in geography. There is, however, a growing body of literature looking to the activities of leisure, including barriers to participation. Leisure geographies now incorporate innovative methods and interdisciplinary theory.
Co - Producing Mobilities
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
Experiencing 'moments of home' through diaspora tourism and travel
Whilst the relationship between diasporic communities and tourism has been explored in the tourism literature, it has generally been underpinned by a limited consideration of the notion of home. Based on ethnographic research with an Iranian diasporic community in the South Island of New Zealand, this paper explores the different ways in which this diaspora community engages with travel and tourism to (re)produce and taste 'home'. It is argued th…
Anchoring to Identity Through Exploring Another Land
Diasporas' travel back to their original home country has often been regarded as one of the main strategies diasporas employ to maintain their cultural ties with home, as well as to (re)connect with their identity. Questions remain, however, as to how these cultural and emotional needs are met by diaspora populations who, for many reasons, either temporarily or permanently, are not able to travel back to their original homeland. Based on a qualit…
Lifestyle Mobilities
This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides between work and …
[Re]positioning second homes within leisure studies
The Mobilities of Hospitality Work
Lifestyle Mobilities
This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides between work and …
The Mobilities of Hospitality Work
Practising academic mobilities
Notions of what a successful academic should be doing - researching, publishing, teaching, serving the academic community - are often dependent upon particular practices of corporeal mobilities. These practices discursively and materially connect historically situated academic mobilities with the "modern," globalised university system. At the same time, there is increasing attention being paid to the "hypocrisy of hypermobile academics" - often r…
Experiencing 'moments of home' through diaspora tourism and travel
Whilst the relationship between diasporic communities and tourism has been explored in the tourism literature, it has generally been underpinned by a limited consideration of the notion of home. Based on ethnographic research with an Iranian diasporic community in the South Island of New Zealand, this paper explores the different ways in which this diaspora community engages with travel and tourism to (re)produce and taste 'home'. It is argued th…
Career paths and mobility in the Swedish hospitality sector
How career paths are interpreted and conceptualised by hospitality workers and industry representatives remains underexplored in current literature. In this paper, we highlight and discuss sector-specific and contextual factors that influence the possibility of establishing a career within the Swedish hospitality sector. The paper uses interviews with hotel managers, who describe and discuss motivations and choices made throughout their own caree…
Young Chinese Becoming Working Holiday makers in New Zealand
The working holiday scheme of New Zealand provides young Chinese with a unique opportunity to have a prolonged work or study and travel experience in New Zealand. Until September 2015, New Zealand was the only working holiday destination for young Chinese and more recently only New Zealand and Australia offer this scheme to young Chinese. With the increasing interest in long-term backpacking, Chinese youth have chosen working holidays as their wa…
Personal crisis as a catalyser in a Movement Continuum of tourism lifestyle mobilities
Various professional, economic, and personal reasons underpin current migration flows. This article integrated the concepts of lifestyle travelling and lifestyle migration by bringing the tourism-migration nexus to the fore to analyse lifestyle issues of individuals that impact their decisions to be mobile. Sixteen in-depth semi-structured interviews with young Russian migrants, a 'modern' population with different perspectives about opportunitie…
Co - Producing Mobilities
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation
This note tells a story of working participant observation. It shares a narrative of how working as a housekeeper, as part of a project about dignity and decent work, opened up the researchers to stories beyond the work tasks. The note weaves a tale around one particular worker, and highlights how as researchers, being embedded, and embodied within their research allowed for insights and reflections that a 'common' interview would not have gained…
The Precariousness of Young Chinese Being Working Holiday Makers in New Zealand
This study explores the precariousness experienced and perceived by Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand, and thereby challenges the more commonly and broadly disseminated positive narratives about long-term travel such as backpacking and working holidays. Whilst young Chinese have participated in the working holiday scheme in New Zealand for over a decade, this nascent phenomenon is still under-represented in the literature. Based on in…
Imagining the possibilities – food as leisure in a fragmented world. Part 1
This special issue, split into two parts, intervenes in the growing literature exploring food in/as/and leisure. The two parts do so by exploring food and leisure through the lens of liquid moderni
[Re]positioning second homes within leisure studies
The Mobilities of Hospitality Work
[Re]positioning second homes within leisure studies
Anchoring to Identity Through Exploring Another Land
Diasporas' travel back to their original home country has often been regarded as one of the main strategies diasporas employ to maintain their cultural ties with home, as well as to (re)connect with their identity. Questions remain, however, as to how these cultural and emotional needs are met by diaspora populations who, for many reasons, either temporarily or permanently, are not able to travel back to their original homeland. Based on a qualit…
Lifestyle Mobilities
This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides between work and …
Co - Producing Mobilities
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
Experiencing 'moments of home' through diaspora tourism and travel
Whilst the relationship between diasporic communities and tourism has been explored in the tourism literature, it has generally been underpinned by a limited consideration of the notion of home. Based on ethnographic research with an Iranian diasporic community in the South Island of New Zealand, this paper explores the different ways in which this diaspora community engages with travel and tourism to (re)produce and taste 'home'. It is argued th…
Leisure Geographies
Leisure has long been a contested term and while it has a long history of engagement by geographers it remains an underrepresented research field in geography. There is, however, a growing body of literature looking to the activities of leisure, including barriers to participation. Leisure geographies now incorporate innovative methods and interdisciplinary theory.
Career paths and mobility in the Swedish hospitality sector
How career paths are interpreted and conceptualised by hospitality workers and industry representatives remains underexplored in current literature. In this paper, we highlight and discuss sector-specific and contextual factors that influence the possibility of establishing a career within the Swedish hospitality sector. The paper uses interviews with hotel managers, who describe and discuss motivations and choices made throughout their own caree…
Personal Changes of Young Chinese through Working Holidays in New Zealand
This study aims to explore the personal changes of Chinese youth from their working holiday experiences in New Zealand. By drawing on semi-structured interviews, this study recruited thirty-four Chinese working holiday makers (WHMs) in New Zealand. A modified thematic analysis was adopted to analyze the interview transcriptions. Five themes have been developed, including independence, bravery, tolerance, marriage attitudes, and friends making. Th…
Young Chinese Becoming Working Holiday makers in New Zealand
The working holiday scheme of New Zealand provides young Chinese with a unique opportunity to have a prolonged work or study and travel experience in New Zealand. Until September 2015, New Zealand was the only working holiday destination for young Chinese and more recently only New Zealand and Australia offer this scheme to young Chinese. With the increasing interest in long-term backpacking, Chinese youth have chosen working holidays as their wa…
Practising academic mobilities
Notions of what a successful academic should be doing - researching, publishing, teaching, serving the academic community - are often dependent upon particular practices of corporeal mobilities. These practices discursively and materially connect historically situated academic mobilities with the "modern," globalised university system. At the same time, there is increasing attention being paid to the "hypocrisy of hypermobile academics" - often r…
Imagining the possibilities – food as leisure in a fragmented world
In this, the second part of a two-part special issue, we continue to explore the ways in which liquid modernity influences the relations we, as humans, have with food as leisure. The world where fo
Imagining the possibilities – food as leisure in a fragmented world. Part 1
This special issue, split into two parts, intervenes in the growing literature exploring food in/as/and leisure. The two parts do so by exploring food and leisure through the lens of liquid moderni
The Precariousness of Young Chinese Being Working Holiday Makers in New Zealand
This study explores the precariousness experienced and perceived by Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand, and thereby challenges the more commonly and broadly disseminated positive narratives about long-term travel such as backpacking and working holidays. Whilst young Chinese have participated in the working holiday scheme in New Zealand for over a decade, this nascent phenomenon is still under-represented in the literature. Based on in…
Personal crisis as a catalyser in a Movement Continuum of tourism lifestyle mobilities
Various professional, economic, and personal reasons underpin current migration flows. This article integrated the concepts of lifestyle travelling and lifestyle migration by bringing the tourism-migration nexus to the fore to analyse lifestyle issues of individuals that impact their decisions to be mobile. Sixteen in-depth semi-structured interviews with young Russian migrants, a 'modern' population with different perspectives about opportunitie…
The ‘CSR facade’ of the hospitality industry
Hotels are often regarded as (un)wittingly complicit in terms of sex traffickers using their facilities for illegal sex purchases. This article examines chain employees’ experiences of individual social responsibility (ISR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the interaction between hotels and three stakeholder groups (online booking channels; governmental and non-governmental organizations; and nearby hotels) in the fight against sex tr…
The role of emotions in moments of crisis
Embodied intersectionality at work in hotel housekeeping in Sweden
This paper examines the experiences of hotel housekeepers inSweden, focusing on how their embodied identities, shaped byfactors like gender, race, and migration background, influence andare influenced by their work. Placing the body at the centre of ourresearch, we explore how embodied intersectionality is situatedand contextually produced as lived experience in hotel workplaces.The way in which intersectional power dimensions are played outand p…
It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers
This paper explores the collaborative methodology of conducting working participant observation in a team setting to study the experiences of hotel housekeepers in Sweden. It aims to refine and extend the method of working participant observation by highlighting the benefits of a team approach to intensive ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on critiques of ‘traditional’ geographical methods that rely heavily on interviews, the researchers immersed t…
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation
This note tells a story of working participant observation. It shares a narrative of how working as a housekeeper, as part of a project about dignity and decent work, opened up the researchers to stories beyond the work tasks. The note weaves a tale around one particular worker, and highlights how as researchers, being embedded, and embodied within their research allowed for insights and reflections that a 'common' interview would not have gained…
A Gendered Lens to Platformisation in Tourism and Hospitality
The rapid platformisation of tourism and hospitality (T&H) is reshaping work, yet for many workers this digital transformation deepens existing vulnerabilities rather than dismantling them. Platforms now colonise recruitment, task allocation, and algorithmic management in a sector already defined by precarity and a workforce disproportionately composed of young people, women, and migrants. While the European Institute for Gender Equality warns th…
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